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Future Classic: Teen Idols review – Australia's taste-making music label | Musique Non Stop

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Future Classic: Teen Idols review – Australia's taste-making music label

With releases by Chet Faker, Flight Facilities and Seekae, Future Classic mark their successful Aria-award winning year with this compilation album


When the Sydney label Future Classic coalesced around friends Nathan McLay, Jay Ryves and Chad Gillard in 2004, the Australian music landscape looked vastly different. Guy Sebastian, Powderfinger and Delta Goodrem were pop stars, retro rockers Jet, The Vines and The Living End were the prevailing tastemakers.


Though Australia’s burgeoning electro movement was germinating behind Steve Pavlovic’s Modular label in 2004, there was little idolatry for the next generation beyond the same old tropes: dumb rock. Who needs “future” when “classic” was so in vogue?


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by Marcus Teague via Electronic music | The Guardian

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